On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 08:54:08AM -0700, carvin5string wrote: > rm -rf /var
> I am using FreeBSD-5.2. Everything works except the rm -rf /var, I get
> a
> message that it is not empty. I look in /var and see a subdirectory
> called empty, which is empty. But I cannot delete it.
See chflags(1) -- /var/empty has had the 'schg' flag applied to it to
make it immutable. You can see that by:
% ls -ldo /var/empty
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel schg 512 Jun 25 2002 /var/empty/
Now, to get rid of the schg (or any other) flag you need to run:
# chflags -R 0 /var/empty
however that will only work at a low securelevel. If you have raised
the securelevel -- ie if:
# sysctl kern.securelevel
tells you securelevel is anything other than '-1' or '0' then you will
need to reboot the system into single user mode in order to do that.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/security.html#SECURELEVEL
Also see init(8) where the details of securelevel settings are
described.
Cheers,
Matthew
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